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  • adjective medicine Of or pertaining to the astrocytes, the star-shaped glial cells of the brain and spinal cord

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astroglia +‎ -al

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  • The objective of the present work was to evaluate neuronal survival, astroglial reaction and synaptic input changes in spinal cord anterior horn motor nuclei after ventral root avulsion in animals with EAE, both during peak disease and after remission.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Roberta Barbizan 2010

  • K, Steinhauser C (2006) Functional changes in astroglial cells in epilepsy.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Marta Gómez-Gonzalo et al. 2010

  • Cell type-specific deletion of this gene in astroglial cells can be performed to address this hypothesis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • The results indicate a reduction in astroglial reaction, a maintenance of microglial reactivity, and increases in synaptic covering of, and survival of, motoneurons in the VRA+EAE group as compared to VRA alone.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Roberta Barbizan 2010

  • Astroglial genes were robustly expressed whereas markers of other cell types were absent or extremely low, confirming the astroglial identity of Bergmann glia and the absence of contaminating mRNAs from other cell types during cell harvesting.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • Our analysis shows that although Bergmann glia robustly express many astroglial genes, as expected, there are also genes that appear to be Bergmann glia-specific, and may be useful as new markers and tools to manipulate this cell type.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • Bergmann glia are positive for the astroglial marker

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • (GLAST), confirming that they were astroglial cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • Expression patterns of well established astroglial markers in the adult cerebellum.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

  • Sixteen cDNA samples passed all quality control criteria, including presence of all tested astroglial markers and absence of all tested neuronal markers.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Samir Koirala et al. 2010

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